YHK - yet another hacker news clone

Secret courts are anathema to democracy and need to be abolished.

"Wyden has also warned about a classified interpretation of Section 702 that he says multiple administrations have relied on and refused to declassify. “When it is eventually declassified,” he said in March, “the American people are going to be stunned that it took so long and that Congress had been debating this authority with insufficient information.”"

Spying on American citizens is a bipartisan point of agreement.

The debate about reapproval of section 702 is all theater. Does anyone genuinely believe the government would stop surveilling us if the authorization expired?

This headline has been relevant since 2001.

This kind of thing will never stop. And those who control it have all the leverage and power.

Perhaps all the spying data should just be publicly accessible and easily accessible for all to use and abuse.

Would democratizing it all so there is never an expectation of privacy from the public vs a select few in power be better in the long run?

They don't want the public to see the big green "APPROVED" rubber stamp that the FISC uses.

> The Trump administration has until November 6 to answer the senators.

How convenient that this is right after the midterm elections. If they maintain control, the republicans can simply decide to ignore this requirement without penalty.